-----Original Message----- From: Ben Sizer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 2:14 AM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Integrating Python into a C++ app
I know the conventional wisdom is to write the whole app in Python and only extend with C++ where speed is an issue, but I already have a large C++ app that I'd like to add Python to. Ideally I'd rewrite the whole app in Python but I don't have time to do that and maintain the old system at the same time. So my next thought was to perhaps integrate the two and slowly migrate modules and classes across from C++ to Python. If it matters, the main reason I'm interested in doing this is because I appreciate the productivity of Python and would like to take advantage of that as I add features to the current code, to reduce bugs and cut development time. I've read a few good things in this group about Elmer (http://elmer.sourceforge.net), but I'm not sure how simply that accommodates calls in the reverse direction (from Python code back into C++). Are there any other options that would require a minimum of rewriting of code? Does anybody have any experience of such a project? -- Ben Sizer Even embedding Python in a C++ Application is an easy task. I work at such an application since about five years. For the first steps in doing this I advice you to study the source code of the modpython apache extension. There you will see how embedding may be implemented. Bur embedding does not work well without extending. For this part I use PyCXX from http://sourceforge.net/projects/cxx/. Axel Diener -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
